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10:00Social Security and Progressive Indexing

President Bush is promoting progressive price indexing along with personal accounts in a proposed overhaul of Social Security. Diane and her guests explain how progressive indexing would affect retirees, with a look at the broader debate over Social Security.

Guests

Robert Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management and member of President Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, 2001-2002

Gene Sperling, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, former national economic advisor during the Clinton administration, and author of "The Pro-Growth Progressive"

11:00Eli Wallach: "The Good, the Bad, and Me" (Harcourt)

The actor looks back on over fifty years on stage and in the movies and on his fifty-seven year marriage to actress Anne Jackson.

Guests

Eli Wallach, actor

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